Armonk Open on Fox News

Wow, I don't know how I missed that. Must have been studying for finals or something.
 
Well produced video with interesting camera angles and things. Good interviews. I like the 80's music, even if it's from a "band" that I think sucks.

Too bad the whole report was extremely condescending. I guess reporters, on average, aren't the smartest people around, but I found their attitude insulting.

Oh well, this is network television we're talking about. I don't know why I expected anything different.

Brian.
 
blgentry said:
Well produced video with interesting camera angles and things. Good interviews. I like the 80's music, even if it's from a "band" that I think sucks.

Too bad the whole report was extremely condescending. I guess reporters, on average, aren't the smartest people around, but I found their attitude insulting.

Oh well, this is network television we're talking about. I don't know why I expected anything different.

Brian.
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Agreed. I was going to say some thing like that, but I wasn't sure how to phrase it.
 
"any game that algorithms, i'd rather play basketball." has he ever played basketball on a team before? basketball has plays, offenses, and defenses, which are pretty much algorithms. your movements and the movements of all the players around you are guided by the offense/defense you are running and the position of the ball, and each change affects the next move. sound familiar? what an idiot.

go bob burton though!! he should be the wca's press secretary or something.

also that dnf is one of the funniest things ever.
 
I swear that they filmed the "43 quintillion, 252 quadrillion..." part about fifteen times...every few minutes I would hear that guy shouting that number. The reporters did kinda get in the way at times. Once he came up to me and was like, "okay, you need to clear off all the timers because we're gonna be filming up there" and I was like...uh, no? In the end they got mostly what they wanted because we were starting BLD and I needed to get my solves out of the way so I could work on certificates, so I took the timer at one end to do my times while he had Tyson, Bob, Jaclyn, Sam pretend to be competing and all start at the same time.

Poor Sam XD
 
Dene said:
Tim Reynolds said:
The reporters did kinda get in the way at times. Once he came up to me and was like, "okay, you need to clear off all the timers because we're gonna be filming up there" and I was like...uh, no?
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Wow, how rude!! I'd tell them to bugger off.
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lol reporters in general are rude... especially that "they may look a bit mixed up" part
 
Cubers don't get much respect on news channels anyway. Remember when Tyson was on CNN a while ago? That anchorman would not shut up and if I remember correctly, he said something along the lines of "I'll do this too, out of sympathy" And then he proceded to distract Tyson by not shutting up.
 
pcharles93 said:
Cubers don't get much respect on news channels anyway. Remember when Tyson was on CNN a while ago? That anchorman would not shut up and if I remember correctly, he said something along the lines of "I'll do this too, out of sympathy" And then he proceded to distract Tyson by not shutting up.
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Yeah, I have the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lACH1zHDVTo

You can't blame the news people and the general public. They don't know how much work and practice you put into cubing and how hard it is to be really good at it. They just think you just learn how to solve it, and you'll automatically be REALLY fast, which isn't true. You know how people always ask you, "Whoa! How do you do that thing?" That's pretty much anyone, so you can't JUST blame the news people. I remember one time, I solved a cube in like 30 seconds, and the guy said "that took a long time." I can understand that, but that was pretty mean, but he's only like 6 years old. 6 year olds also say that stuff to anything.

So that news guy on CNN, I have to agree he was really distracting. Again, he doesn't know that you need to concentrate hard in blindfold solving, and he was just really curious. If a news reporter knew how to solve a Rubik's cube like under a minute, they most likely wouldn't be so rude.
 
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